Moretti v. Langlois

This is a petition for habeas corpus. The petitioner is in the custody of the respondent warden pursuant to a sentence of three years imposed upon him by a justice of the superior court on January 25, 1961. This sentence was based upon a violation of the terms under which the imposition of sentence had been deferred by the superior court in the case of State v. Moretti, Indictment No. 29334.

Because the state did not traverse the averments of the petition, the facts, so far as they are material to the issues raised, are not in dispute. It appears therefrom that in September 1954 a grand jury…